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Re: How to handle same sanity checks

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On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:34:40 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 05:21:33 -0700, Eric Douglas wrote:
> 
>> Sometimes it's helpful or even necessary to see the entire stack trace
>> for an error.  Sometimes that's harmful clutter if you can get multiple
>> errors around the same time.
>>
> Obviously we use different approaches to debugging.
> 
> I find the execution path leading to the error to be considerably more
> useful than a stackdump, which is why I developed my ReportError class.
> Its use makes it possible to leave diagnostic messages in a live program
> and to control the amount of trace detail shown, if any, at run time.
> The impact on performance with tracing off is very small.

Benchmark: 

The best automatic tracing system I've seen ever was in the 1977 vintage 
Algol68R runtime package Apart from the correctly formatted contents of 
all variables and parameters at this stack level, it gave you the 
execution path through the procedure's code. It showed  "if..then",  
"if..else", "do nn times", etc ... using line numbers to identify the 
conditionals, loop delimiters, etc.

I've seen COBOL runtimes do the almost same job as the Algol 68R one 
nearly as well too. 


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How to handle same sanity checks Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2017-06-22 11:10 +0200
  Re: How to handle same sanity checks Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-06-22 10:27 +0000
    Re: How to handle same sanity checks Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2017-06-22 13:21 +0200
    Re: How to handle same sanity checks Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2017-06-23 06:51 +0200
    Re: How to handle same sanity checks Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2017-06-24 12:06 +0200
      Re: How to handle same sanity checks Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-06-24 10:33 +0000
        Re: How to handle same sanity checks Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2017-06-24 16:46 +0200
          Re: How to handle same sanity checks Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-06-24 19:37 +0000
  Re: How to handle same sanity checks Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-06-22 11:26 +0000
    Re: How to handle same sanity checks Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-06-22 07:44 -0400
      Re: How to handle same sanity checks Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-06-22 12:30 +0000
  Re: How to handle same sanity checks Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-06-22 07:40 -0400
    Re: How to handle same sanity checks v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2017-06-22 18:33 +0000
      Re: How to handle same sanity checks Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2017-06-23 06:48 +0200
        Re: How to handle same sanity checks Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-06-23 09:57 -0400
          Re: How to handle same sanity checks Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2017-06-23 16:31 +0200
            Re: How to handle same sanity checks Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-06-23 17:21 +0000
              Re: How to handle same sanity checks Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-06-26 05:21 -0700
                Re: How to handle same sanity checks Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-06-26 13:34 +0000
                Re: How to handle same sanity checks Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-06-26 15:22 +0000
        Re: How to handle same sanity checks Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-06-25 22:55 -0400
  Re: How to handle same sanity checks Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2017-06-22 23:07 +0200
  Re: How to handle same sanity checks Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2017-06-25 09:52 +0200
  Re: How to handle same sanity checks Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2017-06-25 12:31 +0200
    Re: How to handle same sanity checks Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-06-25 14:23 -0400
      Style police (Was: Re: How to handle same sanity checks) Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-06-25 17:28 -0400
        Re: Style police (Was: Re: How to handle same sanity checks) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-06-25 19:14 -0400
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